Order Diprotodontia Author Colin P. Groves text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 45 62 book chapter 193479 10.5281/zenodo.7353075 f3e18b59-04c6-4ced-a95a-73477199b841 1-56098-217-9 7353075 Spilocuscus maculatus Desmarest, 1818 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 25:472 . TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia , Irian Jaya , Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isis, Ceram, Amboina and Selayar Isis ( Indonesia ); Cape York Peninsula ( Queensland , Australia ). STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; but "common" in New Guinea (Flannery, 1990). SYNONYMS: brevicaudatus , chrysorrhous, goldiei, kraemeri ?, nudicaudatus, ochropus, quoy, variegata. COMMENTS: Commonly cited from "E. Geoffroy, 1803 . Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris., p. 149"; but see comments in Appendix I. Feiler (1978a) included atrimaculatus in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in rufoniger .